After graduating with a geology degree, Zulfa Mussá, 38, decided to return to her community in Maciane, Mozambique and use her expertise to provide a service her neighbors needed – a consistent and clean water supply connected directly to their homes.

"My community was very happy, because no one here had piped water systems,” says Zulfa. 

By Alejandro Solis and Anabela Mabota

Agricultural Market Information Systems (MIS) have been in use for approximately a century; in most developing countries, they were not fully promoted until the 1980s, although there were early pioneers, for example, in Indonesia, Nepal and the United Republic of Tanzania (Mawazo et al., 2014). In Mozambique, since 1991, the Sistema de Informação de Mercados Agrícolas (SIMA), has been operative and providing agriculture market information every week to public and private users.

Designada “A caça furtiva rouba de todos nós”, a campanha lançada ontem, 04.03, em Maputo visa consciencializar as comunidades sobre os malefícios da caça furtiva e promover a mudança de comportamento sobre a a conservação da biodiversidade.